Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-29
MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1887.

o--Alcazar Palace. Toledo. spain lately re
stored at cost OF 100000, reduced TO ashes
22-One hundred Chinese soldiers beside
several mandarins lost by drowning in q coils
sO-CoIiislon Of the British ship Kapund
| with bark Ada Milmore off coast of Bra Il: 80
immigrants for Australia drowned; both yes
sells lost.
| 6--Fifty lives lost at Woodstock, VT expires
| train thrown into White River by broken rail.
sl,O0O.000
iS-m a storm along the Rocky Mountain
range from the British line to New Mexico n
| per cont Of the cattle perished.
2j-Earthquake shocks in the vicinity O
Nice and Genoa, on the Mediterranean Sea
caused the loss OF 600 lives; 10000 persons rem
dered homeless; material losses, 100000
2'--Chinese junk wrecked Off Socotra coast
| b94 persons perished.
sS-Fire losses during February aggregated
| N,5I,0J0
1-Explosion in collieries at st. Etienne
France; sixty lives lost. Burning Of steamer
Gardner near Gainesville. Ala. twenty lives
| lost
| 6-Explosion in colliery at Mons, Belgium
| IA miners suffocated.
A-Thirty-nve persons killed by fall of pas
senger train through bridge on Boston and
Providence Railroad, near Boston.
is. hicnmond norel &c buaale, N. T., purneu
thirty lives lost.
2i-Eighty-five lives lost by explosion In
colliery at Lidney, England.
29-Stoamer Benton sunk in collision of the
island Of Formosa 2 70 persons Perished.
United States and Canada gresating SlO,-
$4,000.
April.
2-Fall OF church roof at Linguaglossa.
Sicily; forty persons killed.
22-Knnsas, Missouri. Arkansas, and Ken
lucky were swept by storms, and scores OF
people killed by flying debris; in Kansas, some
hail-stones were found measuring thirteen
inches in circumference The northeast coast
OF Australia was swept by hurricane, and the
pearl-hshing fleet was destroyed; $50 persons
perished.
MAY
2-Steamer John Knox foundered of Channel
Harbor, N. f.. thirty lives lost
SIN q coal mine at Nanaimo, British Column
bfa, two explosions occurred, resulting in a
hre; 40 persons perished Three towns in the
State OF Sonora, Mexico destroyed by earth
quake; l7U lives lost; every house in the town
OF Bavispo was injured; 1863 persons were
buried in the ruins caused by the first shock
2O--Forest fires devastated the northern PEN
insula OF Michigan, causing loss Of 81 900 900,
including the town OF Lake Linden (S2. 500 COZ,
lost.
24-steamer Sir John Lawrence lost in the
Bay OF Bengal 500 Hindoo pilgrims mainly
25--One hundred and thirty person. ,..,.,,,a
in the burning OF the Opera Comique Paris.
27-Belt Line stables burned at New York,
with ], 300 horses loss, 81 $4,000.
28--Gas explosion in a coalpt at Blantyre,
Scotland seventy-hvo miners persisted.
JUNE.
s-Explosion Of fre-damp in l-pit OF
Westphalia fifty-three miners killed
l7-Steamer Champlain burned near Charlie
voix, Mich. twenty-five lives lost,
lS-While eros ing the Danube River near
paks ierryboat containing 4Ol Hungarian ref
2l-Marshield Wis, nearly destroyed by fire
loss, about 100000.
JULY.
GA landslide carried forty houses into Lake
Zug, Switzerland; 10 persons perished. The
town Of Nagg Karolyi, Hungary was destroyed
by hurricane ard waterspout; many persons
lost their lives. The Wonchow River in China
overhowed its banks, submerging miles of ter
ritoryi thousands of people were drowned.
3l--fire record for July showed losses by fire
in the United States and Canada to have been
Sl4, ,026, ,500-double the average loss in July for
the past twelve years.
AUGUST.
5-Millbrook, Kan swept by n cyclono and
eighty buildings destroyed,
s.-Forest fires ragged in Northern Michigan
and Wisnnsin ~ NO tin,hss and
Injured: number OF deaths, 80.
il-Inman Line steamer City OF Montreal
burned at sea; ono boat containing thirteen
persons missing.
5-Oyer $50 persons burned suffocated, or
crushed to death in theatG hre at Exeter,
England.
2s-The Yellow River, in China overhowed
it's banks, destroying Chin-chow and ten other
populous cities 1000 square niles OF territory
drowned, and a million survivors were reported
starving. -..
3O-Fire losses for September we're 1881, 900.
npainst 81, ,5CO,Ot0 o dur ne the ame month last
yenr; aggregate losses for the trst nine months
OF 1857 were S93 4S3, 500-Sl0 1000 greater than
for tho same period OF 1856.
OCTOBER.
and S-Quelito, a town Of 5000 inhabitants,
on the southern coast of Mexico, totally de-
stroyel many lives lost.
1l-At Kuuts, Ind, a freight crashed into
passenger train on the Chicago aud Atlantic
Road, and twenty-five persons perished.
2J-Wreck OF the steamer Vernon in Lake
Michigan, off Two Rivers, Wis. thirty-six OF
tho pa ssengers and crew perished.
3l--During the year, ending at date, seven
teen Gloucester Mass fishing vessels were
lost 16S men perishing, VIII, left over sixty
fatherless children.
Etables seven bodies lashed together were
washed ashore.
3-Twenty-five mon buried in lead mine at
Matlock, England
I6-Stsamer Wsh.Yeung burned at Canton,
China; 400 passengers lost
19-Sinking OF Dutch steamer scholten in
collision with English stean er Rose Mary,
near Dover, England; l3l lives lost.
23-Russ an steamers Sinous and Vesta col
lide | the Crimean coast: the Nesta sunk
and thirty-fve Of her crow drowned.
DECEMBER.
10-The famous Calumet and Hecla mine, in
the copper district of Michigan, burnt out an
three years work to put the ruins in order; the
fire began Nov. %.
l2-Three children locked up Mt home by
their parents near Point Pleasant, w. Va,
burned to death-third case of the kind in that
vicinity within year.